The Holiday List / It’s Christmas! (2024)
Comedy
A woman sets out a well-intentioned plan of bringing her dysfunctional family together in the wake of the family’s matriarch, her mother-in-law.
Starring: Brittany Snow, Lucas Bravo, Simon Callow, Chloé Jouannet, Elektra Kilbey
Director: Jamie Adams
Surprised by Oxford (2023)
Drama | Mystery | Romance
Brilliant but emotionally-guarded Caro Drake arrives in Oxford with the singular goal of attaining her PhD, but through a turbulent friendship with a charming young man she starts to open herself up to mystery, vulnerability, and love.
Starring: Rose Reid, Ruairi O'Connor, Mark Williams, Michael Culkin, Lourdes Faberes, Ed Stoppard, Emma Naomi, Jordan Alexandra, Simon Callow, Phyllis Logan
Director: Ryan Whitaker
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls / Ace Ventura 2 (1995)
Adventure | Comedy | Crime
Ace Ventura, Pet Detective, returns from a spiritual quest to investigate the disappearance of a rare white bat, the sacred animal of a tribe in Africa.
Starring: Jim Carrey, Ian McNeice, Simon Callow, Maynard Eziashi, Bob Gunton, Sophie Okonedo
Director: Steve Oedekerk
Blue Iguana (2018)
Comedy | Romance | Thriller
Ex-jailbirds Eddie and Paul are on parole and working in a New York diner. Their lives are a dead end. That is, until English lawyer Katherine Rookwood walks into the diner with an offer they can't refuse.
Starring: Sam Rockwell, Ben Schwartz, Amanda Donohoe, Simon Callow, Phoebe Fox, Al Weaver, Peter Ferdinando
Director: Hadi Hajaig
The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)
Biography | Comedy | Drama
The journey that led to Charles Dickens' creation of "A Christmas Carol," a timeless tale that would redefine the holiday.
Starring: Dan Stevens, Christopher Plummer, Jonathan Pryce, Miriam Margolyes, Simon Callow, Bill Paterson
Director: Bharat Nalluri
Hampstead (2017)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
An American widow finds unexpected love with a man living wild on Hampstead Heath when they take on the developers who want to destroy his home.
Starring: Brendon Gleeson, Diane Keaton, James Norton, Simon Callow, Lesley Manville
Director: Joel Hopkins
Viceroy's House (2017)
Biography | Drama | History
The final Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten, is tasked with overseeing the transition of British India to independence, but meets with conflict as different sides clash in the face of monumental change.
Starring: Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Michael Gambon, Huma Qureshi, Manish Dayal, Simon Callow
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Golden Years (2016)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama
Fate, the pensions crisis and a steadfast refusal to accept the injustice of old age have contrived to force law abiding, retired couple, Arthur and Martha Goode into a life of crime. Refusing to take the loss of their pensions lying down and to fade away into their declining years, our characters decide to fight back. They decide to take back what was theirs in the first place. They decide to start robbing banks.
Starring: Alun Armstrong, Bernard Hill, Simon Callow, Phil Davis, Una Stubbs, Mark Williams
Director: John Miller
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Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
It is the summer of 1593, and the rising young star of London's theatre scene, Will Shakespeare, faces a scourge like no other: a paralyzing bout of writer's block. While the great Elizabethan age of entertainment unfolds around him, Will is without inspiration on material. What Will needs is a muse–and in an extraordinary moment in which life imitates art, he finds and falls for a woman who draws him into his own dramatic adventure of star-crossed love. It all begins when Lady Viola, desperate to become an actor at a time when women were forbidden from such depravity, disguises herself as a man to audition for Will's play. But the guise slips away as their passion ignites. Now Will's quill again begins to flow, this time turning love into words, as Viola becomes his real-life Juliet and Romeo finds his reason to exist. Yet all is not well in Will's world. For even as the parchment begins to pile up, he's plagued by the fact that Lady Viola must marry the insufferable Lord Wessex.
Starring: Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Geoffrey Rush, Judi Dench, Simon Callow, Colin Firth
Director: John Madden
Amadeus (1984)
Biography | Drama | Music
Amadeus. The man. The music. The magic. The madness. This is the incredible, mostly true story about the relationship between two composers in 18th century Vienna — Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham), the successful court composer for Emperor Joseph of Austria, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce), a child prodigy who, while vulgar and irritating, writes the greatest music the world has ever heard. The film unfolds in a series of flashbacks, as Salieri is consumed with jealously by Mozart's natural talent, and is unable to accept the knowledge that he will never possess the genius of a man he cannot stand.
Starring: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Simon Callow, Roy Dotrice, Christine Ebersole
Director: Milos Forman
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
Comedy | Romance
Shy Londoner Charles meets American Carrie at a friend's wedding and enjoys a one-night stand with her. The next time they meet, again at a wedding, Carrie is accompanied by a rich fiancé, leaving Charles heartbroken. Nevermind, with another wedding on the horizon, there is still time for him to pitch his woo and win the love of his transatlantic sweetheart.
Starring: Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, James Fleet, Simon Callow, John Hannah, Kristin Scott Thomas
Director: Mike Newell
